“To Be Honest, Raphael, I Don’t [Like You]!”: Intersubjective Affirmation and Analytic Negotiation; Discussion of Alan Sirote’s Paper

Stuart A. Pizer, PhD, ABPP, is a Founding Board Member, Faculty, Supervising and Personal Analyst, and former President, Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis; Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Faculty, Supervising and Personal Analyst, Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia; Visiting Faculty and Member of the Advisory Board, Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis; and Honorary Faculty, Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles. He is an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Associate Editor of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. He is a Past-President of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. His book, Building Bridges: The Negotiation of Paradox in Psychoanalysis, was published by The Analytic Press in 1998. He is in private practice in Cambridge, MA.
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